Photographer Jeff Berkes captured a total lunar eclipse behind the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park. Here, at approximately 9:20 p.m. on Sept. 27, 2015, the moon continued in maximum eclipse, as the light faded away. (http://www.jeffberkes.com/Jeff Berkes Photography)

Nature, weather and the night sky have fascinated photographer Jeff Berkes for “as long as I can remember,” he told weather.com in an email.

“Weather is so unpredictable, beautiful and destructive,” he said. “Photography is all about light and capturing that available light. Weather has an awesome way of bending and modifying light, which brings textures, colors and many other photographic opportunities to the table for the photographer and viewer.”

The interplay of natural light and its surroundings inspired Berkes to head to one of the nation's most-iconic places to photograph a recent night sky event: the combination Supermoon/Harvest Moon/total lunar eclipse that occurred the evening of Sept. 27, 2015. It was a rare lunar convergence that won't appear again until 2033.

For the eclipse, he traveled 2,000 miles to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and prepared to shoot the moon rising behind the famous Old Faithful geyser — all while hoping the weather and the geyser's eruption schedule would cooperate. (Old Faithful spews boiling water more than 100 feet into the sky every 35 to 120 minutes, give or take, according to the National Park Service.)

On Sept. 27, Berkes arrived at the park at 11 a.m., ready to shoot. A 4 p.m. thunderstorm had him worried, but the weather forecast called for clear skies around 7 p.m., so he stuck it out and hoped for the best, he said.

The clouds then cooperated. “From 6:30 p.m. on, I kept looking at my watch every 10 seconds until I noticed it was 8:10 p.m. and still no [geyser] eruption,” he said. “I had two cameras set up, one shooting wide angle shots, and my telephoto ... 120 feet to the northeast. As the moon crawled higher in the sky, I kept moving to the left to keep the moon and Old Faithful close in the frame.”

Finally, at 8:15 p.m., nature cooperated in spectacular fashion, as seen in the slideshow above. Old Faithful erupted just four minutes after the moon entered total eclipse, casting the orb in a deep red tone.

“You could literally hear the breath being sucked out of everyone there witnessing the event,” he said. “The stars literally aligned that day and gave me more than what I could of ever expected.”

Berkes' night sky photography spans more than just this event: He has an incredible collection of images from across the country, capturing meteors, NASA launches and much more. See a selection of his celestial images in the slideshow above.

For aspiring night sky and nature photographers, Berkes holds photography workshops in different stunning natural places throughout the country every year. Check out his 2016 schedule here, and learn more about his work, including a forthcoming book, at JeffBerkes.com.

An infrared composite image taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Dwarf Galaxy located about 62 million light-years from Earth. This photo was taken in 2013. (NASA)

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